Corset



(ModeL) .G.v A. M GEE. CORSET.

Patented Oct. 10, 1882 Vilma w N, PETERS, Phqwumo u mr, Wmhlnglom D4 c.

5 not be specifically described.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLOTTE A. MGGEE, OF JACKSON, MICHIGAN.

CORSET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 265,690, dated October %1882,

Application filed January 28, 1881.

T) all whom-it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLOTTE A. MGGEE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Jackson, in the county ofJackson and State of 5 Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Corsets; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and ex act description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it apro pertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and

to letters or figures of reference marked thereon,which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 is an inside elevation of a portion of a corset having my invention applied thereconstruction and arrangement of the metallic oroth'erelasticdistending springsorbars. Fig. 4 is a section taken on linear :1 Fig. 3.

' The improvements are shown as applied to a corset like that patented to me August 14,1877;

but they are equally applicable to many other formsof corsets.

In the drawings, A represents one of the front sections of a corset,'in the lower part of which is formed an opening or slit provided 0 with the usual lacing, A The corset-front is provided with anumber of bones or steels, A"

which are seated in pockets formed between the two layers of material by lines of stitching in the usual manner, and which therefore need At the front edge of the section A there is a spring or stiffening-strip, D, and at the back edge ofthe rear section the corset is provided with one or more springs, D, these parts being of the ordinary 0 construction.

a is a supplemental bone-pocket formed of a piece of fabric separate and apart from the fabric from which the section A is made, and secured to said section by a line of stitching.

5 The pocket is closed at its lower end preferain Fig.1 at M, and it will be readily understood that such construction facilitates the removal (Model.)

of the bone or steel for the purpose of reversing its position relative to the body of the corset or for the purpose of replacing it with either a stiffer or a more flexible bone or steel. The bone or steelmay be withdrawn from the pocket at any time, if the wearer so desires, as it is of the nature ofa supplemental stay,whereby the stiffness of the corset may be regulated at the option of the wearer.

The supplemen talbreast-pocket consists of a lower portion, 0, and an upper portion,G, provided with upper, lower, and central metallic or other elastic ribs, 0 c 0 covered with a suitable woven fabric, and secured to the body of the corset preferably by means of eyelets a,

two at each end, so as to bear against the upper and lower parts of the fabric of the outer pockets.

A supplemental pocket is situated inside the corset and behind the springs afiwhich are permanently seated in the pockets in the body of thecorset. Th us these springs which are placed in the supplemental pockets are made to re-enforce the springs a and may be employed to produce any amount of additional support which the wearer may require,whereby the desirability of the corset as an article of sale and wear is largely increased, this increase in value as an article of sale arising partly from the fact that a dealer can increase the supporting capability of the corset at will to suit the req uirements of each purchaser by inserting in either or both of the supplemental pockets such spring or springs as may be needed. By thus providing the corset with bone-pockets separate from and supplemental to those which are formed between the two thicknesses of fabric of which the corset is composed I am enabled to largely increase the number ofsprings which may be applied to acorset,whereby each spring may be made very flexible and elastic, so that the desired stiffness can be imparted to the body of the corset,while at the same time each spring may be made of thin material having great flexibility. Thus not only the durability of the springs but the comfort of the wearer may be largely increased.

I am aware that corsets have been made with supplemental pockets adapted to receive re-enforcing springs; also that corsets have been' so constructed that springs could be taken out and replaced at will; but I believe that I am and composed of the central horizontal rib, 0

the first to conceive the idea of constructing a corset with supplemental removable springs seated in supplemental pockets having openin gs,whereby the desired stiffness of the corset may be increased or diminished at will, and whereby, also, the supplemental springs may be inverted in their position as desired.

1 do not in this application claim the supplemental spring-pocket a, as I prefer to embody that invention in another application which I have filed as a division hereof.

What I claim is The combination,'in a corset, of a supplemental breast-pocket permanently secured to the inside of the breast-pocket at both ends,

the upper part formed of a fabric, 0, and an edge rib, 0, curved downwardly at its ends, and the lowerpart formed of a fabric, l, and an edge rib, 0, curved upwardly at its ends, the two pieces of fabric being stitched together at or near the central rib, 0 and adapted to bear against the upper and lowerparts of the fabric of the outer pocket, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I aftix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLOTTE A. MOGEE.

Witnesses N. G. LOWE, MELVILLE McGEE. 

